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BOTTLING GASOGENE. No. 372,248. l Patented Oct. 25, 18875 Y.

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BOTTLING-GASOG ENE.

SPECIFICATION forming part ofLetters Patent No. 372,243, dated October 25, 1887.

` Application tiled August 2B, i886. Serial No. 212,073. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom zit may concerna- Be it known that I, CHARLES ELLERY AV- EEY, of Jacksonville, in the county of Duval and State of Florida, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Low-Pressure Bottling-Gasogenes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a safe, simple, and convenient apparatus or gasogene, adapted for household use, whereby water and other liquid beverages may be charged with gas.

The invention consists, as a whole, in the combination of two or more receptacles (preferably three,) one of which is a generator in -whioh the charging-gas is formed, while the other or others contain the liquid to be charged, a connecting head or xture to which said receptacles are detachably secured, said lxture having a tube or tubes connecting the generator with the liquid receptacle or receptacles, and inwardly-opening valves in the liquid-receptacles, which yield to the pressure of the gas from the generator and permit the gas to enter the liquid-receptacles, but close either automatically or by the pressure of the gas within the liquid-receptacles, to prevent the escape of the charged liquid when the receptacles are removed from the connecting Fig. 2 represents a section lengthwise4 of the cross'bar f, the bottles being broken away. Fig. 3 represents a side elevation of the valve hereinafter referred to.

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the iigures.

In the drawings, d a a represent three elongated receptacles, preferably of glass, in the form of bottles. Each receptacle has a stopper -and a fastening device therefor, said fastening devices being preferably like those commonly in use for Stoppers of beer and soda-water bottles. The receptacle a constitutes a generator, in which gas may be evolved from a powder like that described in Letters Patent of the United States granted to me April 28, 1885, While the receptacles a a are with enlarged ends formed integral with the tubes b b, the nipples b b being preferably formed integral with said enlarged ends, and the whole-viz., the tubes, ythe stopper of the generator, the bar f, and the nipples b 0'- constituting a head or fixture whereby the generator and the receptacles are connected, the receptacles being detachable from said head or fixture by unscrewing them from the nipples.

The stoppers c c havev apertures forming continuations of the tubes b b, and inwardlyopening valves h h for said apertures,whereby the gas from the generator is admitted to the receptacles o. a', said valves being closed against the apertures in the Stoppers, either automatically or by the pressure of the gas in the receptacles, so that when the receptacles are removed from the connecting head or fixture their contents cannot escape until the Valves are pressed inwardly by a drawing-od' tube or device inserted in the orifice of the stopper. I have shown the valve Stoppers in this case constructed as described in Letters Patent No. 283,436, dated August 21, 1883; but I may use any other suitable stopper. The stopper here shown is composed of a rnetallic'core, into which the nipple b is screwed, and a yielding rubber covering on said core, composed in part of the valve L, which valve is normally held against the inner ends of the core to close the opening therethrough. The rubber covering is providedY with slits s, through which gas can enter the bottle when the rubber covering is pushed by the gaspressure away from the inner end of the core,

of thebar f and the upper ends of the stop- IOO pers c c, the nipples b b passing through said washers. The upper ends of the Stoppers are convex, and the corresponding surfaces of the barf bearing on the washers are concave and have a more abrupt curvature than the upper ends of the stoppers, as shown in Fig. 2, so that the washers are more tightly compressed at their` outer portions and are pressed inwardly against the nipples, thus forming gas-tight Io joints around the latter.

IVhile the receptacles c'a'are being charged the generator and receptacles are placed horizontally, or substantially so, to seal the internal valves of the caps orstoppers ccwith liquid, either by capillary attraction or by height of liquid.

'lhe tubes Z1 b within the generator are bent to one side ofthe latter, as shown in Fig. l, so that when the receptacles and generator are horizontal and the valves of the receptacles are liquid-sealed the open inner ends ofthe pipes will be above the gas generating liquid in the generator, and said liquid will be thereby prevented from entering the receptacles a' a.

rIhe barf, forming a part ofthe connecting head or fixture, not only stiffens said head and prevents the bottles a a from swinging and knocking against each other freely, but also serves as a handle, whereby the apparatus can be conveniently carried, and as a wrench, whereby the nipples b Z/ may be screwed strongly intothestoppersofthe receptacles (ta.

It will be seen that the detachability of the receptacles a a and the selfclosing valves of their stoppers enable said receptacles to be conveniently used or packed for transportation or placed on ice, each receptacle being interchangeable with others, so that the generator may be kept steadily in operation.

Since carbonio anhydride (00,) requires solne hours to coinbinewith water, gas merely forced in and not combined at once escapes, leaving the liquor flat,) I find that the great pressure `of other gasogenes are not required, and that at a pressure of seventy-five pounds, which my powder above referred to gives in summer temperature, the gas combines as it is slowly forced over.

In any Ordinar gasogenethebottling would be useless, for though their initial pressures are high their resultant soda-Water is rarely high charged, never enough to bear the weakened pressure consequent on discharge from a generator of small capacity of bottles.

I claiml. In a bottlinggasogene, the combination of a plurality of bottles located side by side, one of said bottles serving as a generator and the other as a receiver, a bent pipe extending from the interior of the generator and from a point which is below the ordinary water-level when the bottle is upright, but above the water-level when turned on the side and communicating with the receiver, and a stopper for said receiver fitted to be detachably connected with said pipe and provided with a valve which opens to admitgas to the receiver and closes to prevent the escape of gas and liquid therefrom, the whole constituting a portable apparatus,which may be placed in a horizontal position to forni a liquid seal for the Stoppers of the bottle by their liquid contents during the charging operation, as set forth.

2. In a bottling-gasogcne, the combination of a bottle serving as agenerator, one or more bottles for the liquid to be eharged,having internally-valved Stoppers with screw-threaded apertures, and a head or fixture connecting said generator and Stoppers, said fixture coniprising tubes which connect the generatorand receptacles and terminate in screw-threaded nipples which engage the threaded apertures of the Stoppers, as set forth.

3. In a bottling-gasogene, the combination of a generator, one or more bottles or receptacles for the liquid to be charged, having internallyyalved aperturcd Stoppers, and a head or fixture connecting said generator and receptacles, said fixture being composed of tubes b b, which connect the generator and the receptacles, screw-threaded nipples which engage the Stoppers of said receptacles, and a rigid bar or handle secured to the tubes b b, as and for the purposes specified.

4. A generator fora bottling-gasogene having tubes b b attached to its stopper and bent within the generator toward one side thereof and formed at their opposite ends to be detachably connected to liquid-receptacles, as set forth.

5. A generator for aboltling-gasogene having tubes b b attached to its stopper and formed at their outer ends to be detaehably connected to liquidieceptacles, and connected at said outer ends by a rigid bar or handle, as set forth.

6. In a gasogcne, the combination of a generator and a gascondncling tube passing from the interior ofthe generator and bent therci n toward one side of the generator, whereby when the generator is placed in an approximately horizontal position the end of the tube is raised above the liquid therein, as set forth.

7. In a gasogene, the combination of a generator, a detachable stopper therein, and a tube for the escape of gas passing from theinterior of the generator through said stopper and bent within the generator toward oneside thereof, whereby when the generator is placed in an approximately horizontal position the end of the tube is raised above the liquid therein and thestopperis sealed by said liquid, as set forth.

In testimony whereofI have signed my name to this speeificatiomin the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 25th day of August, 1886.

CHARLES ELLERY AVERY.

Witnesses:

G. F. BROWN, ARTHUR W. CRossLnY.

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